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Ready for a pulpy papal potboiler?
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Ready for a pulpy papal potboiler?

LA Times  

It’s Kong vs. Godzilla, Dodgers vs. Yankees, the first time these two iconic franchises have met in the World Series since 1981, when a 20-year-old rookie phenom, pitching on three days rest, brought the Dodgers back from the brink, propelling them to a world championship. It’s a thriller about petty men undone by aspiration: mostly silly, sure, but also at …

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Steve McQueen on making WWII personal with ‘Blitz’: ‘It’s about us fighting ourselves’
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Steve McQueen on making WWII personal with ‘Blitz’: ‘It’s about us fighting ourselves’

LA Times  

“I’m not going to go down the easy path,” says director Steve McQueen. “We could have that,” the filmmaker says, sitting in a quiet room in London’s Soho Hotel during a long day of press ahead of BFI London Film Festival. But I know it’s interesting when you’re working in a way which is confrontational.” “War is bad enough, but …

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Vogue World wowed but won’t pay the wages of young fashion designers
1 year, 3 months ago

Vogue World wowed but won’t pay the wages of young fashion designers

The Independent  

The giveaway was that it started with a fundraiser. Featuring performances from FKA Twigs, Sienna Miller, Damian Lewis, Stormzy, and many, many more, the West End-inspired extravaganza was held to celebrate and raise money for the UK’s performing arts scene, which American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour described as “under threat”. “I don’t think it has ever been more difficult to …

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Cannes movies Zone of Interest and Occupied City find new ways to depict the Holocaust.
55 years ago

Cannes movies Zone of Interest and Occupied City find new ways to depict the Holocaust.

Slate  

The most chilling moment in Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour Holocaust documentary Shoah is a slow tracking shot approaching the gates of Auschwitz, moving toward the ruins of the death camp with the ineluctable steadiness of a Nazi transport. Because most contemporary images of the death camps had been produced as Nazi propaganda, Lanzmann chose to situate his movie entirely in the …

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How Colin Firth inspired ‘Bridgerton’ and other surprising stories from 6 top TV bosses
3 years, 7 months ago

How Colin Firth inspired ‘Bridgerton’ and other surprising stories from 6 top TV bosses

LA Times  

Early this month before the confusion of the CDC’s notice that masks are no longer necessary, COVID and its devastating intrusions into life — and television productions — was top of mind for the six storytellers gathered remotely, some from as far away as Amsterdam, for The Envelope’s annual Showrunner Roundtable. “When I see someone even going for a handshake …

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Steve McQueen explores love and community in ‘Small Axe’
3 years, 10 months ago

Steve McQueen explores love and community in ‘Small Axe’

LA Times  

I’m Mark Olsen and welcome to the newsletter companion to “The Envelope: The Podcast,” where my cohost, Yvonne Villarreal, and I bring you highlights from each week’s episode. “Let’s all of us make an effort to expand that tent, so that everyone rises and everyone’s story has a chance to be seen and heard.” Where we normally have Times awards …

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Lovers Rock review: Second film in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series is so convincingly realised, you’ll think you were there
4 years, 1 month ago

Lovers Rock review: Second film in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series is so convincingly realised, you’ll think you were there

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Lovers Rock, the second film in Steve …

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Steve McQueen announces Small Axe, an anthology of five films on racism and resistance
4 years, 3 months ago

Steve McQueen announces Small Axe, an anthology of five films on racism and resistance

Firstpost  

All of Steve McQueen’s films in his Small Axe anthology will play on the BBC and Amazon in November In a movie year mostly lacking big, ambitious releases, Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology is an unqualified main event. “You look back to look forward, and also to judge how far we’ve come.” The scope of McQueen’s achievement has been gradually …

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